Tag: mushroom recipes

In case you clicked through to this post only to discover what the heck a galette is, all you need to know is that it’s like a lazy man’s pie. And, almost everyone likes pie. A galette is special because it has the best elements of a good pie like an impossibly flaky crust and […]

A few weeks ago, I took an epic vacation with my mother to the majestic central California coast in part to attend the Big Sur Forager’s Festival. Even in the days leading up to the Festival, the restaurant menus we encountered from San Francisco to Santa Cruz to Carmel-by-the-Sea and finally to Big Sur said, […]

This has been one persistent winter! Just when you think it might be over…BAM! Another 30-degree temperature swing and inch or two of snow. It happened again this past weekend, and we took the opportunity to just savor it, making a fire to use the last of our firewood, lounging around in sweatpants and indulging […]

Some of you may know that besides my enviable post as creator of Tomato Envy, I also have a very un-sexy corporate cube-dwelling gig. Of course, it’s this office job that pays the bills and has me traveling a couple times each month to the company’s home office location where I stay in a hotel […]